- Beach-head: What's that bow-wow doing here?
- Law: That's my dog, Order. He's trained to sniff out explosives. Order, seek!
- Beach-head: This is supposed to be *your* test, Law!
- Law: Hey, Law and Order are a team, man. He finds the bombs, I drive the car. We tried it the other way, but it didn't work.
- Sgt. Slaughter: [to Nemesis Enforcer] When I'm through, scuzzbucket, they're gonna scrape you off the walls with a squeegee!
- Golobulus: Allow the Web of Rememberance explain the story. Forty thousand years ago, the glory of Cobra-La dominated this planet. But an age of ice destroyed much of what we had built. And with it, began the time of the barbarians. Surprisingly, they evolved.
- Baroness: [to Destro] If you ask me, some of them did not evolve.
- Golobulus: And gradually, they mastered a technology based on inorganic, lifeless substances. Their culture was a travesty of our own noble ways, and a threat to our very existence. We retreated to preserve our ways, and await an opportunity to reclaim the earth.
- Sgt. Slaughter: At ease, Disease! I've been expecting you. My name is Sgt. Slaughter. Special drill instructor for G.I. Joe.
- Lt. Falcon: That's terrific, Sarge, but I'm tryin' to cut back on the chicken sweat just now, so if you don't mind...
- Sgt. Slaughter: [grabs him by the collar] You're going nowhere, space case. You're here because you're an industrial strength foul-up! My job is to whip you into shape and I mean *whip*! There's only two ways out of my command: on your feet like a man, or in a ditty bag... an itty-bitty ditty bag! *You got it?*
- Lt. Falcon: [smartly] Yes, sir!
- Sgt. Slaughter: That's better! Now straighten up and meet the Renegades. They're not real dependable now, but when I get through with them, what are you going to be?
- Mercer, Taurus, Red Dog: Perfect!
- Sgt. Slaughter: That's right. Perfect. Meet Mercer, an ex-Cobra Viper who's seen the light. Red Dog, booted out of pro football for unnecessary roughness. And Taurus, a circus acrobat with a few loose bats in his big top.
- Lt. Falcon: Uh, hi guys.
- Golobulus: I will stain my hands with your blood! No one defies Golobulus and lives... NO ONE! The last thing you will hear... is the cracking of your vertebrae... one... BY ONE!
- Red Dog: [after hearing the bell ringing] Dinner already?
- Sgt. Slaughter: Not unless you like snake burgers. We're gonna infiltrate the Terrordrome on Cobra Island.
- Mercer: That's suicide!
- Taurus: Yes. Horoscope say it bad day to travel.
- Sgt. Slaughter: Think of it as an extra rough training exercise.
- Lt. Falcon: Training, huh? Why don't we leave our weapons behind? Make it really educational.
- Sgt. Slaughter: Now that's what I call a challenge! No weapons! Let's move out!
- [Renegades growl at Falcon]
- Duke: I want you guys to infiltrate Cobra's Terrordome and destroy it. By the way, how's he doing?
- Sgt. Slaughter: It's too soon to tell but I think the kid's got a lot of potential. And by the way, I won't tell him you asked.
- Beach-head: What is he doing? Get rid of that thing.
- [Beach-head throws the explosive device away only to be horrified that Order has retrieved it and given it back to him]
- Law: Order! Give it here. I'm sorry, Beach-head. He's usually very obedient.
- Beach-head: Yeah well, just get rid of that thing. I hope you BOTH get fleas!
- General Hawk: How is he, Scarlett?
- Scarlett: Not good.
- Duke: I guess I can't look out for you anymore, kid...
- Lt. Falcon: Don't say that, Duke! Doc'll fix you up.
- Duke: This isn't Doc's day for miracles... It's my own fault... I'm too slow...
- Lt. Falcon: No, no! You did it to save me!
- Duke: Promise me you'll try to... get your act together... Be a credit... to your country...
- Lt. Falcon: I... I'll make you proud. You'll see.
- Duke: Yo... Joe...
- Scarlett: He's gone into a coma. Duke...
- General Hawk: Falcon, don't worry. We'll do everything we can for Duke. Yo Joe.
- Wild Bill: Hoo Wee, doesn't look cozy down there, Lift Ticket!
- Lift Ticket: I don't think Falcon's supposed to be cozy, Wild Bill. Gung-Ho, Alpine and Bazooka aren't exactly enjoying their hospital stay!
- Lift Ticket: [tosses Falcon a parachute] Put it on, smart guy!
- Lt. Falcon: What for? We're over the middle of nowhere.
- Lift Ticket: Which is right where you belong!
- [kicks Falcon out of the helicopter]
- [Abandoned by his fellow Cobras, a mutated Cobra Commander turns to his former adversaries for help as they flee Cobra-La]
- Cobra Commander: Wait for me!
- [He catches up to Roadblock]
- Cobra Commander: Stop! It's a trap!
- Roadblock: [grabs Cobra Commander by the collar] Get outta my face!
- Cobra Commander: Look!
- [Roadblock turns to see his fellow Joes get recaptured by Cobra-La's living fortress]
- Roadblock: My buddies!
- Cobra Commander: There's nothing you can do to save them!
- [Roadblock growls and tightens his grip around Cobra Commander]
- Cobra Commander: Wait! I know another way out of Cobra-La! You can save yourself and fight again!
- Roadblock: So what's your fee? Snakes don't give for free.
- Cobra Commander: Take me with you!
- [Roadblock surveys the situation and sees he has no other option but to trust Cobra Commander]
- Roadblock: We got a bargain. But play it straight or there's no doubt, I'l turn your eyeballs inside out.
- Cobra Commander: This way!
- Sgt. Slaughter: Where's Falcon?
- Red Dog: Who cares? We don't need...
- Sgt. Slaughter: It's time you learned we're a team, Red Dog. We all go home or nobody goes home.
- Serpentor: None may challenge Serpentor! This I command!
- Pythona: [reveals herself] That won't be necessary.
- Serpentor: I have seen... I have seen you before in a dream... a vision.
- Pythona: In a memory, great Serpentor. I am part of your destiny. When you were created, my face was etched into your soul. I am Pythona, and now it is time to fulfill your destiny. Behold the Broadcast Energy Transmitter.
- Cobra Commander: No! No! Not the spores! I'm a citizen of Cobra-La. NOT THE SPORES!
- [Nemesis Enforcer approaches Cobra Commander with a steaming pod. Nemesis Enforcer forces Cobra Commander's head down onto the pod as it bursts and launches the spores around his face. The Royal Guards then let go of Cobra Commander's arms and let him fall on all fours. He grabs his throat and hyperventilates]
- Cobra Commander: No! No!
- [Cobra Commander rips his shirt open revealing his flesh as it mutates into green and yellow scales]
- Golobulus: Nemesis Enforcer, throw this worthless sewage into the Abyss of oblivion.
- Serpentor: No, put him in with the Joe prisoners, so they see can the fate which awaits them.
- Pythona: I like that. It's poetic in it's simplicity.
- Golobulus: Eh, a trifle melodramatic, but instructive... Nemesis Enforcer, take him away...
- Cobra Commander: You have no jurisdiction over me! Release me at once or taste my wrath!
- Golobulus: Be silent, or be silenced!
- Cobra Commander: I am always prepared to listen to reason, most honored sire.
- Serpentor: [after Duke sacrifices himself to save Falcon] He took the snake that was meant for *your* heart! But his sacrifice will be in vain! THIS I COMMAND!
- Serpentor: Blunderers! Fools! We possess power greater than any on Earth! Yet our conquests are stripped from us on every front! Our most dangerous enemy is NOT G.I. Joe but YOUR collective incompetence!
- Cobra Commander: Hogwash!
- Serpentor: WHAT? You dare say?
- Cobra Commander: The fault, most imperial Serpentor, lies not within us, but within YOU! Your leadership has been pompous, pusilanimous and pathetic!
- Baroness: What did he say!
- Zarana: He's gone batty!
- Dr. Mindbender: That's treason!
- Tomax: I don't believe it!
- Serpentor: Yes, leadership IS at the very heart of this matter. But it's not mine that's inadequate, Cobra Commander, it is YOURS! Your ego driven stupidity has converted victory into catastrophe FOR THE LAST TIME!
- Cobra Commander: Go ahead. Make me the scapegoat. My loyal subordinates could testify to my superb stewardship of Cobra. But you don't have the courage to let them speak!
- Serpentor: Wrong again! Defend him if you can.
- Cobra Commander: Indeed they shall! You first, noble Destro.
- Destro: Militarily speaking, it is only fair to say that Cobra Commander is a world-class... buffoon.
- Cobra Commander: WHAT? Baroness, Dr. Mindbender, brave Xomat and Tomax... you won't let Destro's treacherous assassination of my character go unchallenged, will you?
- Dr. Mindbender: Certainly not! Destro forgot to mention your frequent displays of cowardice!
- Cobra Commander: Oh!
- [Cut to Pythona emerging from the lake and breaking into Cobra's headquarters and back again to the other Cobras blaming Cobra Commander for their repeated failures]
- Baroness: And you botched our desert campaign!
- Destro: We had won but YOU countermanded my order!
- Baroness: You meddling brought us defeat! Again and again and again!
- Dr. Mindbender: You're not just a fool, you're Cobra's curse!
- Tomax: Inept!
- Xamot: Insufficient!
- Tomax, Xamot: Inexcusable!
- Cobra Commander: Unsubstantiated fantasy! Lies, lies, LIES!
- Sgt. Slaughter: [fighting Nemesis Enforcer] This is for Gung-Ho, Alpine and Bazooka!
- [tackles him once]
- Sgt. Slaughter: This is for Falcon!
- [tackles him twice]
- Sgt. Slaughter: This is for me!
- [tackles him a third time]
- Sgt. Slaughter: This is for Duke!
- [tackles him a fourth time]
- Sgt. Slaughter: And this is for the U.S. of A!
- [tackles him a fifth time]
- Sgt. Slaughter: You make me sick!
- [throws Nemesis Enforcer to his doom]
- Golobulus: Generations passed. And then, a brilliant young nobleman came to my attention.
- [a 14th century scientist is seen examining a plant of unknown origin. The pods on the top of the plant explode and spray a strange mist in the man's face. He starts to develop snake scales all over his face]
- Golobulus: Even though he was disfigured by a laboratory accident, he was my choice to go into the world.
- [We see Cobra Commander as we know him]
- Golobulus: To raise a mighty army and to destroy this so called "human" civilization which had driven us into exile. You were my hope, Cobra Commander, and you failed me *miserably!*
- Cobra Commander: I was betrayed! My troops lacked courage! It was not my fault!
- [Zandar and Zarana hold back an appalled Zartan]
- Golobulus: *You failed!*
- Cobra Commander: No! Your precious creation Serpentor defiled your dreams of conquest! Destroy him, I say! Destroy him!
- Beach-head: You six rawhides, you're gonna learn soldiering, and - hey, there's only five of you. Where is that gold-plated goof-off, Lt. Falcon?
- Jinx: Terrific question!
- Big Lob: Man said he has some errands to do. Go to the tailor, wallpaper his footlocker... weird stuff.
- Tunnel Rat: I think he had a date or something.
- Serpentor: [prepares one of his snake spears against Falcon] You, young one! You have nearly thwarted my destiny! Die, arrogant Earth scum!
- Red Dog: You're not filling your brothers in, Mercer. What's Cobra-La?
- Mercer: I've never heard of it.
- Taurus: That answer gives me no comfort!
- Sgt. Slaughter: Pipe down! I believe him. Right now, we gotta warn headquarters.
- Cobra Commander: Useless. It's all useless.
- Roadblock: Come on! Snap out of it! Neither of us will make it if YOU don't hang together!
- Cobra Commander: I was once a man. A man!
- Roadblock: I can't see, but I can still - hey, this is your faceplate?
- Cobra Commander: Was my mask. Just as I was once a man.
- Roadblock: Hey, I don't like that crazy sound. Tell me, dude, what's going down?
- Cobra Commander: The beginning of the end of human civilization.
- Golobulus: Heroic and utterly futile! Behold the pods have matured! There is no way to stop the spores! You have lost, G.I. Joe! LOST!
- Shipwreck: Well save my bones for Davy Jones.
- Snowjob: He gives me chills.
- Quick Kick: What did they do to him?
- Lady Jaye: He looks... inhuman.
- Roadblock: Forget than man, remember the plan. When the guards open the gates, we've gone.
- Golobulus: Behold the culmination of centuries! The ultimate fruit of hypergenetic manipulation, a weapon which no enemy can withstand. In several hours, these marvelous fungisoids will mature and launch hundreds of giant pods into orbit. The pods will bear spores, and those spores will degenerate all organisms they touch, mutating them into mindless incompetent lifeforms.
- Pythona: [superimpose Pythona's face over the viewscreen] When the pods ripen, they will burst...
- [the B.E.T. lights up the mutegen pods and they start exploding. The spores fall quickly forming into a mushroom cloud]
- Pythona: and shower the earth with enough spores to reduce the entire human race to the level of mindless beasts.
- [We then see a visual of a man getting hit in the back of his head with the mutegen spores. As the mutegen spores touch down on him and turn him into a hideous snake beast, he appears in view and looks at the camera after being hit by the spores. His clothes are tattered by the affects of the mutegen spores as he covers his face and roars and develops snake scales that run up one side of his body, across his face and neck, and down the other side of his body and the whites of his eyes turn yellow and develop cylindrical pupils. We then see steam after the spores touch down blocking out the moonlight]
- Golobulus: Only those beneath the protection of Cobra-La's icedome will be spared. But the pods will not ripen in the freezing outer space without energy. And that is why I must have...
- Serpentor: The Broadcast Energy Transmitter. Of course.
- Cobra Commander: Fool! You haven't got the B.E.T.! You don't even know where it is! Your plan is laughable!
- Golobulus: But your punishment will not be.
- Cobra Commander: Punishment? What about my trial?
- Golobulus: It's over!... and the verdict is guilty... guilty of the one unforgiveable crime... Failure!
- Baroness: Those Drednok are flying awfully close to the capture plants.
- Dr. Mindbender: Those aren't Drednok. Those are G.I. Joes.
- [slaps Falcon around]
- Serpentor: Who's with you? You can not hold out forever.
- Lt. Falcon: You're right. All I need is five more minutes.
- Golobulus: Once this worm reaches the top of this pole, the pods will ripen and this pitiful planet will be ours.
- Lt. Falcon: Where's the lair?
- [Cobra Commander slithers around and hisses]
- Lt. Falcon: I said where's the lair?
- [Cobra Commander slithers through a hole in the door]
- Lt. Falcon: It's too late. He's already completely transformed.
- General Hawk: General Hawk to base.
- Lt. Falcon: What's up?
- General Hawk: The earth is in serious danger. There are mutagen pods floating in the earth's orbit. If we don't shut the BET down those pods will open and shower the earth with enough spores to mutate every man, woman, and child on this planet.
- Lt. Falcon: [Klaxon blaring] Oh no! No! Oh boy, you really are bad luck.
- Jinx: Hey, you're no rabbit's foot yourself.
- General Hawk: Falcon! Take a good look at what your irresponsibility cost us because you *deserted* your post: an enemy force was able to penetrate security, free Serpentor and injure three good men. You're confined to quarters until court-martial! Get him out of my sight!
- General Hawk: Lt. Falcon, I don't know how an arrogant misfit like you got into this outfit in the first place!
- Tunnel Rat: [whispering] Are they going to shoot Falcon?
- Law: No. This is just a preliminary hearing.
- General Hawk: Three Joes injured and Serpentor freed by some bizarre new enemy, all because YOU can't follow orders! Your record is a shameful parade of insubordination and gross dereliction of duty. We searched your files in the hopes of finding SOME act of merit to offset the maximum penalty. We found... none!
- Duke: [stepping down from the gallery] If it please the court, I ask that the defendant be spared.
- General Hawk: On what grounds?
- Lt. Falcon: [grabbing Duke's arm] Duke... don't.
- Duke: [pulls away] I just know that deep inside, there's a Joe worth saving; Falcon is my half-brother.
- General Hawk: [shock and surprise reverberates through the courtroom] We should confer on this. Duke, you may remove the defendant.
- [Falcon and Duke step outside]
- Lt. Falcon: [angrily] Don't do me any more favors, "big-brother"!
- Jinx: Falcon! Duke's just trying to help!
- Lt. Falcon: How? By busting my chops every chance he gets?
- Duke: I promised our mother I would keep an eye on him. Maybe I shouldn't have taken the job.
- [Falcon clenches his fist]
- Tunnel Rat: He did the crime, he oughta do the time!
- Big Lob: Now *you* might get penalized for his screw-up!
- Lt. Falcon: Hey! Nobody's going to take the fall for me! I don't need your help!
- [grabs Duke by the shoulders]
- Lt. Falcon: STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!
- Low Light: [door hisses open] Showtime!
- General Hawk: [inside the courtroom] Lt. Falcon, it is the judgment of this tribunal that you *not* be turned over for court-martial.
- [Falcon and Duke express surprise]
- General Hawk: However, you still must answer for the severity of the charges against you. Falcon, you're going to learn what it means to be a Joe even if it kills you. I'm sending you to the Slaughterhouse!
- [bangs gavel]
- Big Lob: Big Lob makes his move! Big Lob goes for the gold!
- [attempts to swing across a trench but flames shoot up]
- Big Lob: He cuts cross-court, sidestepping the opposition!
- [heads towards another trench, filled with water and covered with barbed wire]
- Big Lob: He executes a perfect ten dive!
- [dives into the water and swims across; gargling]
- Big Lob: The goal line is in sight!
- [rises out of the water]
- Big Lob: Breaks free in the end zone!
- [automatic turret starts firing at him; he dodges and tosses a grenade]
- Big Lob: Takes down the defense and lays down the long bomb! It's looking good! Rim shot! Will it drop in? YES!
- [continues to dodge gunfire until Tunnel Rat comes out of a pipeline and shoots the turret. Big Lob then rings the bell]
- Big Lob: Big Lob wins!
- [Tunnel Rat rings the bell and the two celebrate]
- Big Lob: And the crowd goes bananas!
- [Beachhead throws down his remote control in frustration]
- Beach Head: The crowd ain't the only thing that's going bananas!
- Jinx: [after Golobulus escapes] We failed...
- Sgt. Slaughter: No, not yet!
- [He points to Falcon, jumping back to the controls of the B.E.T]
- Jinx: What are you doing?
- Lt. Falcon: If I can rev up enough juice...
- [He turns up the power to the maximum]
- Sgt. Slaughter: You can fry those spores in space!